Tess Lowery

Category: Tess Lowery

October 14, 2017

Jekyll and Hyde

TESS LOWERY reviews The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde at Greenwich Theatre. ‘Out of his time or out of his mind?’ asks..

July 10, 2017

Rotterdam

TESS LOWERY reviews Rotterdam at the Arts Theatre. ‘No, Alice, I don’t want to become a man, I just want to stop trying to be a woman.’..

June 12, 2017

Mummy

TESS LOWERY reviews MUMMY at the Crazy Coqs. You would be forgiven for thinking you’d walked into the wrong venue having arrived at the circular..

May 17, 2017

Identity Crisis

TESS LOWERY reviews Identity Crisis at Ovalhouse. “I didn’t know death could be so pretty,” gasps Phina Oruche, re-enacting the horrifying discovery of her beautiful 19-year-old..

April 30, 2017

The Idle Women

TESS LOWERY reviews The Idle Women at Limehouse. In a sparse room tucked away next to the Limehouse Basin in Canary Wharf, actors Heather Wastie and..

March 15, 2017

Bunny

TESS LOWERY reviews Bunny at the White Bear Theatre. 40 miles out from central London and buried under headlines about Britain First campaign’s offenses there, Luton has..

March 11, 2017

Rainbow Spaces

TESS LOWERY reviews Spaces, an original musical produced by UCL Musical Theatre Society. ‘Write what you know’, Mark Twain famously declared. Presented by UCL’s finest musical..

November 1, 2016

Modern Mythology

TESS LOWERY reviews The Acedian Pirates at Theatre 503. According to Greek mythology, Helen of Troy was the most beautiful woman ever to have walked..

October 20, 2015

A modern merchant’s ships don’t come in

TESS LOWERY reviews the National Youth Theatre’s production of The Merchant of Venice. The National Youth’s Theatre’s REP Company was launched in 2012, in the..

October 9, 2015

‘Life is a shit sandwich’

TESS LOWERY reviews the revival of Tooting Arts Club’s award-winning ‘Barbarians’. It’s the 70s. The Beatles break up, Elvis croaks, 918 people die in the Jonestown..

July 5, 2015

‘Protect the bones’

TESS LOWERY reviews ‘Pyramid Texts’ at Soho Theatre. Geoff Thompson’s one-man play begins inauspiciously enough, with a weathered and silver-haired former boxer called Ray (Chris Fairfank)..

June 30, 2015

The Art of Sexual Assault?

TESS LOWERY reflects on the effectiveness of performance art when dealing with issues of controversy. Content warning: -descriptions and discussion of sexual abuse -graphic descriptions..

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